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Walter Schels - This is the end by Joanna Moorhead
"What I was used to," says Schels, who has taken hundreds of portraits during his career, "was people who smiled for the camera.
It's usually an automatic response.
But these people never smiled.
They were incredibly serious; and more than that, they weren't pretending anything any more.
People are almost always pretending something, but these people had lost that need.
I felt it enabled me as a photographer to get as close as it's possible to get to the core of a person; when you're facing the end, everything that's not real is stripped away.
You're the most real you'll ever be, more real than you've ever been before".
Joanna Moorhead
